Category Archives:Running

It has now been over 4 years since I’ve started running. Anyone who has met me, knows I could talk about running for hours. All the beautiful and painful and encouraging things about it. The way runners are amazing. All the fantastic people I have met thanks to running. And, well… All the places running has taken me, giving me a lifetime of running travel stories!

Some of these places I’ve visited mostly for the purpose of running – meaning, if there wasn’t a running plan there, I may have ended up somewhere else (now we’ll never know, right?). Other places are mostly places where I’ve lived at some point. Not that it matters, really.

People have all sorts of bucket lists, and for the past few years, mine tend to have at least a few long-distance racing events, but an injury has kind of stopped me along the way.

However, I did get to do some crazy running stuff already – including a half-marathon in Switzerland in the middle of the night, and a 100 kilometer run as a part of 12-hour ultramarathon. However, I’m still far from seeing Machu Picchu during a marathon, but hey – that’s why we all have bucket lists in the first place, right? Here’s the one that has “Top Marathons 2016” written on top!

This is directed to every single person that has ever stepped their foot out the door in order to run. A hundred meters, a mile, ten minutes, three hours, doesn’t matter. If you did that – and if you are doing it again, too – you are a runner, and this is for you.

Highly impacted by the event of this week’s Dublin Marathon, where I volunteered, there are things piling up in my heart that I just need to share with the world.

Let’s set one thing straight and upfront before I even start: there is no answer to either ‘how’ or ‘why’, especially considering that almost everyone in my life just says ‘because you are crazy’ as an explanation. Anyway, if you want to know more about my ultramarathon story despite the craziness, keep on reading!

It always seems pretty tough and almost impossible for me to put all my thoughts in one place when it comes to describing a marathon experience. Each one of them is very different and very unique; so far there are 6 marathons in my life (and 2 ultras, but let’s not talk about it now) and it is amazing just to think about how special are they in comparison to another. And this one was a straightforward perfect day: here is a story of my Łódź Maraton 2014.